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H. Montgomery Hyde: Ulster Unionist Mp, Gay Law Reform Campaigner and Prodigious Author
H. Montgomery Hyde died in 1989 by which time he had become history. Only a very few remembered him or his gay campaigning role let alone the fact he had been an Ulster Unionist MP throughout the 1950s. Thirty years later, he can hardly be conceptualised. Too many, at best, see him as an aberration for Belfast but he was a recognisable type of progressive yet traditional British politician. No one else played as long or as effective a part in changing the views of people towards gays when only a handful put their head above the parapet. "Harford" as he was known to his friends, "H. Montgomery Hyde" to his readers, and "Montgomery Hyde" to the electors of North Belfast, led the battle in the ...
Room 3603
The story of the British intelligence center in New York during World War II.
The Cleveland Street Scandal
Reconstructie van het geruchtmakende Cleveland Street-schandaal van 1889/90 rond een homoseksueel bordeel waar jonge telegrambezorgers tegen betaling beschikbaar waren voor seks met Britse heren van stand.
Secret Intelligence Agent
Hyde fortæller om sit arbejde for britisk efterretningstjeneste i Gibraltar, Bermuda og USA. - Åbnede og fotograferede diplomatpost. Rådgiver for Hertugen af Windsor vedr. sikkerhedsspørgsmål på Bahamaøerne. Forfalskning af "Belmontebrevet" i 1941, der førte til brud mellem Nazityskland og Bolivia. - Kritik af Stevenson's: "A Man Called Intrepid".
Solitary in the Ranks
"Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888[5]? 19 May 1935), known professionally as T.E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916?18. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was used for the 1962 film based on his World War I activities."--Wikipedia.
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
‘I have put my genius into my life but only my talent into my work’. So said Oscar Wilde of his remarkable life – a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected. Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar’s astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London’s sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, and Neil McKenna argues compellingly and convincingly that Oscar’s Wilde’s life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. The book draws of a vas...
Famous Trials
Four days after the opening of Oscar Wilde's most popular and witty play The Importance of Being Earnest, the Marquess of Queensberry threw down a gauntlet to the playwright in the form of a card - the catalyst for one of the most bizarre contests ever staged at the Old Bailey. Wilde's prosecution for libel and his own subsequent prosecution by the Crown for gross indecency showed a man completely at odds with a class-ridden society that was rife with snobbery and narrow-mindedness. This book describes the case.
The Other Love: an Historical and Contemporary Survey of Homosexuality in Britain
Geschiedenis van de vervolging van homo's in Groot Brittannië. Vooral juridische aspecten worden behandeld, beginnende bij de wet in 1533 waarin sodomie met de dood bestraft werd, tot de Sexual Offences Act in 1967 die seksuele aktiviteiten met wederzijds goedvinden tussen twee volwassen mannen niet langer strafbaar stelde.
